How to Use company town in a Sentence

company town

noun
  • At a company town hall last week, the trio revealed that bankers have been hired to sell its assets.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 1 July 2024
  • And, for many people, that life is lived in fear — of expulsion from the company town.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 May 2021
  • Those with the means and connections are fleeing to company towns.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Musk would be far from the first wealthy businessman to build a utopian-minded company town.
    — Matt Novak, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • By building out a company town of his own, Musk could take that approach even further.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Berns and Sisolak have insisted the project would not be a company town.
    — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Not everyone is thrilled to be living in the country’s largest company town.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The arrangement can seem like a throwback to the company town of an earlier era.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The company town of old was typically formed to attract workers to new job sites.
    — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Is this the exciting city of the future or an urban company town run by a data giant?
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 24 June 2019
  • To put it mildly, Plymouth Valley is a company town on steroids.
    — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Life in these places won’t be like life in the company towns of the 19th century, not exactly.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The Yankees are still so often covered like the company in a company town.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Some companies are holding special events, such as all-company town-halls timed to the holiday.
    — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 16 June 2021
  • The two began to talk about a show based on a company town decaying around its primary employer—the prison.
    — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Read on to learn more about how leaders can make company town halls and all-hands meetings more engaging, fun and useful for all who attend.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And so the community would persist, a tableau of georgic calm sealed inside the bottle of a company town.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Cobalt, a company town that sprouted up a few miles east of the mine, was at one point home to 1,500 residents.
    — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Its three co-CEOs confirmed as much Tuesday at a company town hall with staff.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 June 2024
  • Up sprouted Harbel, the company town named after the founder and his wife, Idabelle.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • But Alcatraz was really like a small company town where the main industry was a prison.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022
  • For much of its history, North Adams was a one company town, whether that was a major mill or Sprague.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The American West is littered with company towns that became ghost towns.
    — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Losing the mill would devastate the half-million residents for whom the Gary area still feels like a company town.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • In Culiacán, the cartel runs what amounts to a shadow government in a company town.
    — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The former company town was hit hard by the end of the industrial boom, followed decades later by the housing crisis.
    — Mary Hall, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Sudbury was a company town.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Many company towns included theaters, offered films and music, and even built churches and paid pastors’ salaries.
    — The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Fifty years ago, not far from a shady picnic spot filled with old friends, there was a quarry with a company town and a whole bunch of young boys without much to do in the summertime.
    — Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Las Vegas could almost be called a company town, and its economy depends on tourism — even in the pandemic.
    — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2020

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